POTSDAM, N.Y. - Senior Rafael Kowal (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Plattsburgh/Alfred State) and junior Hunter Daily (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan) both broke program records to highlight the Saint Michael's College men's and women's swimming & diving teams' triumphs among five schools when the State University of New York at Potsdam's two-day North Country Invitational concluded on Saturday at Maxcy Hall Pool.
 
NORTH COUNTRY INVITATIONAL
NOTES

• The women scored 707.5 points to comfortably outdistance second-place Clarkson University (378). The Purple Knights won their eighth mid-season championship since 2014-15, extending their streak to eight consecutive top-two performances at the North Country Invitational.
• The Saint Michael's men won despite capturing only five of 19 events, as the Purple and Gold utilized its depth to post 33 top-five finishes. After entering Saturday with a 25-point lead over Clarkson, the Purple Knights finished with 614 points to the Golden Knights' 559 for their fourth consecutive mid-season championship crown, including their last three North Country Invitationals.

MEN'S MEET
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Daily, 1 win, 1 school record
  • 1st place: 200 breaststroke (2:15.79). Trimmed Sean McGurn's '20 six-year-old program record (2:16.00)
  • 2nd place: 200 medley relay
• Kowal, 1 win, 1 school record
  • 1st place: 1,650 freestyle (16:38.55). While recording the event's top time in the Northeast 10 Conference this season by more than 37 seconds, Kowal shattered Nate Imbergamo's '20 six-year-old program record (16:51.32)
  • 2nd place: 200 medley relay, 400 freestyle relay
• Junior Liam Jordan (Mendon, Mass./Wellesley), 1 win
  • 1st place: 400 individual medley (4:23.32)
• Sophomore Lucas Haynes (Holliston, Mass./Holliston), 1 win
  • 1st place: 100 freestyle (49.35)
  • 2nd place: 200 medley relay, 200 freestyle, 400 freestyle relay
• Senior Ben Insley (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Plattsburgh)
  • 2nd place: 200 medley relay
• Senior Alex Meek (Essex Junction, Vt./Essex)
  • 2nd place: 400 freestyle relay
  • 3rd place: 100 backstroke
• Senior Connor Quirbach (Lowell, Mass./Chelmsford)
  • 2nd place: 100 freestyle (trailed Haynes by 0.07 seconds for first place), 400 freestyle relay
  • 3rd place: 200 freestyle
• Senior Sebastian Revesz (Bedford, Mass./Bedford)
  • 3rd place: 3-meter diving

WOMEN'S MEET
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Junior Hannah Steen (Portsmouth, R.I./Portsmouth), 2 wins
  • 1st place: 200 medley relay (1:56.95), 400 freestyle relay (3:46.24)
  • 2nd place: 100 freestyle
  • Passed Julie Mullowney '14 to take over third in program history in career relay wins (36)
• Junior Madeline Waldt (Abingdon, Md./The Catholic High School of Baltimore), 2 wins
  • 1st place: 200 medley relay (1:56.95), 1,650 freestyle (18:41.92)
  • 3rd place: 400 freestyle relay
• Junior Ayden Walsh (Tallahassee, Fla./Creekside), 2 wins
  • 1st place: 200 freestyle (2:02.47), 400 freestyle relay (3:46.24)
• Sophomore Sydney McSweeney (Warwick, N.Y./Warwick Valley), 2 wins
  • 1st place: 200 medley relay (1:56.95), 400 freestyle relay (3:46.24)
  • 2nd place: 200 freestyle
• First-year Olivia Larsen (Riverview, New Brunswick/Riverview), 2 wins
  • 1st place: 200 medley relay (1:56.95), 200 breaststroke (2:33.50)
• Sophomore Mary Mongelli (Rockville, Md./Academy of the Holy Cross), 1 win
  • 1st place: 400 freestyle relay (3:46.24)
  • 3rd place: 200 butterfly
• Senior Riley Beaudoin (Groton, Mass./Groton-Dunstable Regional)
  • 2nd place: 200 butterfly
  • 3rd place: 400 freestyle relay
• Senior Livy Waranis (Narragansett, R.I./Narragansett)
  • 3rd place: 400 individual medley, 400 freestyle relay
• Junior Ashley Meade (Belle Harbor, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy)
  • 3rd place: 200 breaststroke, 400 freestyle relay
• Sophomore Shay Callanan (Shaftsbury, Vt./Mount Anthony Union)
  • 2nd place: 1,650 freestyle

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S MEET

• Jan. 8 vs. Bentley University, 1 p.m.
• In the meantime, Haynes, Kowal and Waldt will compete in the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) College National Open Water Championship in Sarasota, Fla., on Dec. 13 at 8:30 a.m.